The Watts Revolt
In the summer of 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles erupted in violence. What began as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into six...
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Julius Nyerere
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Julius Nyerere, also known as Mwalimu (teacher) Nyerere, was a prominent figure in Tanzanian and African history. Born on April 13, 1922, in Butiama, Tanganyika...
Marie M. Daly
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Marie M. Daly is best known for being the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. Marie M. Daly...
Maulana Karenga
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Maulana Karenga was born in Parsonsburg, Maryland, and moved to California in 1958 where he studied at Los Angeles City College (LACC) and UCLA. At...
Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., who eventually served on the United States Court of Appeals, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1928. His mother, Emma...
Dr. Ernest Just
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Ernest Everett Just was a pioneering African American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist. Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Just overcame significant racial...
Brownsville Riot in Texas (1906)
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In July 1906, the U.S. Army stationed three companies of the all-black Twenty-Fifth Infantry at Fort Brown, Texas, adjacent to Brownsville. In recent years, southern...
Patterson v. Alabama
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Patterson v. Alabama (294 U.S. 600) was a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court decision resulting from the controversial Scottsboro Trials, which began in 1931. The high...
The Scottsboro Case
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A Landmark in American Legal History The Scottsboro Case, a series of legal battles spanning the 1930s, stands as one of the most infamous episodes...
William Monroe Trotter
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William Monroe Trotter was a major early twentieth-century civil rights activist known primarily for launching the first major challenge to the political dominance of Tuskegee...